Academic Quote by A. S. Byatt

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

— Mohsin Hamid

I am a novelist at heart.

— Vera Nazarian

I am a novelist through and through.

— Meg Wolitzer

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

— Manuel Puig

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic…

— Richard Russo

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

— Henry Rollins

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

— Howard Gordon

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

— Ian Gillan

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write…

— Jose Saramago